RCAROPast, Present, Future

In-House Evaluation & Thoughts on RCARO Activities(Kun Mo CHOI, Director, Seoul, RCARO Workshop, Aug. 2013)

Background

Dr. Dongxin Feng’s suggestion

- To address means to further enhance the role of RCARO in response to demands from the IAEA and Member States

10 Year’s anniversary of RCARO Past – Present - Future

Ten Year’s of History

March 2002: Establishment of the RCARO for interim operation in Daejeon, ROK

The 32nd GCM in 2003 adopted the resolution on the Establishment of the RCARO

The 27th NRM in 2005 decided full operation of the RCARO and appointed Director of RCARO

The 36th GCM in 2007 adopted the resolution on the roles and status of the RCARO

March 2012: the 10th Anniversary of the RCARO

Changes in the Past 10 Years Mission:

To seek out opportunities to participate in the projects of other regional and international agencies

To negotiate and secure funding for RCA projects To promote peaceful uses of nuclear tech. To enhance visibility of RCA To implement agreed directives by the Member States To provide Member States with RCA related records

as a repository (at the 39th GCM)

Changes in the Past 10 Years

Budget 0.5 Mil. USD 1.17 Mil. USD

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Yearly Budget of RCARO

Buget in US Mil.열 1

Changes in the Past 10 Years

Personnel 6 regular staff -> same Temp. staff from Member States

Changes in the Past 10 Years

Operation & legal status Interim operation (2002-2005) Full operation

(2005-present) Resolutions to support the Office’s status

1st (2003, 32nd GCM): A resolution on the establishment of the RCARO; It reconfirmed roles and functions of the Dir-ector of the RCARO.

2nd (2007, 36th GCM): A resolution on the roles and status of RCARO; It confirmed that the Director of the RCARO has the authority to act on behalf of the RCA in order to ful-fil its mandate given by the RCA Member States, as set out in the RCA Guidelines and Operating Rules

Changes in the Past 10 Years

Oversight Bodies: SAC and SC

Standing Advisory Committee (in RCA): discuss, advise and decides on major issues ROK-NR(host country), Past, Present, Upcoming

Chairs, IAEA Focal Person Steering Committee (in host country): discuss,

advise and decides on RCARO work plan & bud-get MSIP, RCARO related experts in Korea (11 members)

** MSIP: Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Plan

Changes in the Past 10 Years

Relationships among RCARO stakeholders

MSIP

RCARONational Assembly

IAEA

SC

SAC

RCA Member States

BudgetOffice

: organizations in the host country

Major Achievements

Seeking Partnerships & Fund

Dr. Aleta’s study (Aug.~Sept. 2005) Visited FAO, UNESCAP, UNIDO, UNESCO, UNEP, AIT,

UNDP, ADB, PEMSEA, etc. biennial programs, MDGs, partnerships, No-nuclear policy Suggestion:

Short term: FAO, UNESCAP, AIT, PEMSEA Medium term: ADB, ASEAN, UNEP Long term: UNESCO, UNICEF, UNIDO

RCARO visited UNDP, UNESCAP, PEMSEA, UNEP, ADB UNDP/RCA programs were initiated. ARCCNM/RCARO partnership was developed.

* ARCCNM: Asian Regional Cooperative Council for Nuclear Medicine

Major Achievements

Major achievement

Promote peaceful uses of nuclear technolo-gies

RCARO/KAERI Regional Training Workshop

RCARO/KAIST Nuclear Engineering Master’s Degree Course

Participation in FNCA (Forum for Nuclear Cooperation in Asia) to discuss the cooperation with RCA since 2009, rep-resenting RCA Member States

Awareness of RCA

Operation of RCA website RCARO incorporated the MOH website in MAL in 2010 The degree of access to the website data for public was decided at the

39th GCM in 2010 RCARO renewed the RCA website in July 2011

RCA Success Story : RCARO has published total of 18 Success Sto-ries (15 leaflets + 3 booklets) throughout 5 batches of publication

Participation in international meetings by RCARO or experts from Member States

Exhibition at the 40th anniversary of RCA (2012) Production of RCA promotion video (2011)

Major Achievements

Member States’ Directivesfrom NRM, GCM, SAC, NRs

Success story RCA website Annual RCARO Work Plan

Major Achievements

RCA’s Repository

Various RCA documents such as NRM, GCM records, information on RCA projects are stored in RCA web site(www.rcacro.org).

Major Achievements

Major achievement

Operation Increase in its budget Environment of the Office Enhancement of its legal status

Relocation of RCARO in ‘07

Opening of RCARO in ‘02

Relocation of RCARO in ‘13

Evaluation IAEA’s report on the RCARO’s performance before its enter-

ing into full operation in 2005

It said that RCARO had established administrative and legal provi-sions for its operation and fulfilled its mandate to a large extent.

Awarded Certificate of Excellence on its RCA promotional and information programme in 2013 from IAEA/TC

SAC’s annual evaluation

Member States’ evaluation (at NRM, GCM) Host country’s evaluation

By SC

In-house evaluation

Issues and challenges ahead Some worrying indicators

Budget, Manpower Support from the host country Support from RCA

Is the present mission proper? Focused on viability and visibility – Is it enough and

proper? Budget and manpower?

Are they enough and stable? Is this an international body?

Lack of legal protection and autonomy in operation

Thoughts on future

Mission1) Partnership with other org.

2) Securing fund for RCA projects

3) Promotion of NT

4) Awareness

5) Directives from Member States

6) Repository of information

(Suggestion) Support of tasks related with the RCA projects

Thoughts on future

Legal provisions for RCARO

Present Agreement + article on the establishment and basic structure of RCARO

(an alternative) RCA/IAEA Regional Office (bench mark-ing UNDP/IAEA Regional Industrial Project Office in INS)

Thoughts on future

UNDP/IAEA Regional Industrial Project Office in INS

RCA/IAEA Regional Office in ROK

Fund-UNDP (Regional Industrial Project)-Gov’t, Industry

-ROK-Other Member States-Int’l Org.

Mission -UNDP/RCA projects-RCARO program(partnership, awareness, support of RCA projects)

Period July 1983 ~ 1992

Legal frame Agreement between IAEA & INS Agreement between IAEA & ROK

Staff -Rep. and a staff (IAEA)-secretaries (BATAN) -Dir. and staff (IAEA)

Office Status -office in BATAN -an independent body in ROK

Operating cost -provided by BATAN -provided by fund

RCA/IAEA Regional Office, referring to UNDP/IAEA Office in INS in 1983-1992 (a proposal for discussion)

Basic Direction for the future of RCARO

For the benefit of all Member States Entity to promote nuclear techniques in the re-

gion through cooperation Use of given recourses of the RCARO (budget,

manpower, experience) Interests from the high decision makers in Mem-

ber States are essential to solve the challenges ahead of RCARO.

We need to devise strategy to make all stake-holders (Agency, Member States, Host country of RCARO) winners.

Thank you.